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“I just heard about a brand new study that has been done in California by Dr. Woo. They took children aged 4 to 12 that had speech delay and they stayed in their regular program, ABA and whatever regular program [they were] was doing and they got an hour a day of sensory therapy. And it was done as a controlled experiment, where half the kids just got the regular treatment, and the other half got this added sensory treatment.

And they got some really big significant improvements and they made the point of using all very inexpensive things that would be in any house.”

Sensory Enrichment Therapy is an evidence-based, patent-pending treatment that uses sensory experiences to enable the brain to reduce the symptoms of autism.

The treatment involves sensorimotor exercises that concurrently stimulate two or more senses such as olfaction, touch, vision, balance, motor systems, etc.

Temple Grandin PhD, describes it this way:

Environmental enrichment is an innovative therapy that is easy and simple to do. It may help many children.

Environmental enrichment has three innovative features:

Always changing the stimulus

Stimulating two senses simultaneously

One of the senses is always either smell or touch

About Sensory Enrichment Therapy

Results showed that after 6 months of therapy 42% of the children in the sensory enrichment group achieved clinically significant improvement, compared to only 7% of the children in the standard care group.